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Title: Raising the Bar : The Championship Years of Tiger Woods by Tim Rosaforte ISBN: 0-312-28462-4 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 23 April, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.54 (26 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Hats off to Rosaforte
Comment: Raising the Bar was an excellent and easy read, but I didn't expect anything less from Tim Rosaforte.
People who follow the game of golf extremely closely may not find out much more about Woods than they already know by reading Raising the Bar. However, Rosaforte takes a different approach to his work, which makes it very enjoyable. Rather than spit out strictly facts about Woods, Rosaforte's book goes in-depth with people, besides himself, who have chronicled Woods' career by sharing anecdotes with people like Mark Steinberg (Woods' agent), Butch Harmon (Woods' coach), Scott Van Pelt (The Golf Channel field reporter and Golf Central anchor), Jeff Rude (Golf Week columnist) and various touring professionals, including Mark O'Meara.
Perhaps my favorite anecdote involved the Golf Channel's Peter Kessler, a noted golf historian. At the beginning of the book, Kessler talked about what it was like to follow Tiger around Pebble Beach during the 2000 U.S. Open:
"I was just keenly aware of what I was witnessing," he said. "I missed Bobby Jones in his prime, and I never saw Hogan, but I did see Arnie, Gary, Jack, Lee, Tom, Seve, Greg, Nick and Nick. It was my sense after following him 50 holes in the U.S. Open, that this was the best that anybody had ever played golf, and I got to see it. I felt so lucky and honored, and because I had an appreciation for what it meant historically, I started to cry. His mom hugged me and comforted me like I was two years old and then Joanna started crying because I was crying, then Kultida started crying because Joanna was crying, and then Tiger emerges from the scoring tent. Tiger looks at both of them and looks at me and says, 'It's Peter's fault, he was crying first,' as we were sharing my handkerchief. Tiger hugged the girls and hugged me, and laughed at me, and went out to get his U.S. Open trophy."
The entire book was enjoyable and I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys the sport of golf at any level and is mesmerized by the unparalleled success of Woods. For those who haven't followed Tiger's career closely, don't worry; you'll be at the edge of your seat. Rosaforte makes Raising the Bar an easy and interesting read, by catching the golf-novice up to date. For those avid golf followers who already know about Tiger's career, Rosaforte's use of anecdotes will leave you unable to put the book down.
Rating: 2
Summary: Hardly Any New Stuff Here
Comment: This is a wonderful book if you have a cursory knowledge of Tiger Woods and his brief career.
But if you're a die-hard golf fan who has read EVERYTHING written about Tiger over the last 3 years, you'll find that "Raising the Bar" contains hardly any new stuff. Almost everything is a re-hash of the quotes we've all read. There are some exceptions, but not many. If you read the book's excerpts in the Jan. 2001 issue of GOLF DIGEST and found them compelling and intriguing -- as I did -- you'll be very disappointed with the book. You can't blame the author for this; Tiger and his team hardly ever reveal anything about themselves.
Rating: 4
Summary: Tiger Woods
Comment: Rising The Bar is a book about a famous golfer named Tiger Woods by Tom Rosaforte. This book follows Tiger as he makes his professional golf career. Tiger was 2 when he started picking up the game of golf. He would watch his father when he would go golfing. When Tiger was 12 he won his first state golf tournament and by the time he was 19 he was in the Junior PGA (professional golf association). By the time Tiger reached the age of 23 he won his first professional golf title.
This book is a very easy book to read, even though it's a big book. Tim uses very easy words to understand. This book follows Tiger through every championship starting from his first one.
I would recommend this book to people who like sports and seeing people do well even though they weren't expected too. I'm the kind of person that likes books that shows how good people do coming from a not so good background. I give this book *** because if follows every detail of Tiger starting when he was a kid.
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Title: Ben Hogan : An American Life by JAMES DODSON ISBN: 0385503121 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 11 May, 2004 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Golf by Robert G. Price, Maryanne Haselow-Dulin ISBN: 1932549129 Publisher: Price World Enterprises Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Greatest Game Ever Played: Harry Vardon, Francis Ouimet, and the Birth of Modern Golf by Mark Frost ISBN: 0786869208 Publisher: Hyperion Press Pub. Date: 06 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Who's Your Caddy? : Looping for the Great, Near Great, and Reprobates of Golf by RICK REILLY ISBN: 0385488858 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 06 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right by ANN COULTER ISBN: 1400046610 Publisher: Crown Pub. Date: 25 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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